Virtual worlds

Different virtual worlds

Second Life Virtual world where Schome islands are currently located.

SPORE Looks worth a look - design your world through five stages - you can share your world and its creations with others and explore the worlds they have created... Looks like it's kind of violent though ...

Quest Atlantis - an interesting project using a virtual environment to enhance learning.

Check out this interesting classification of virtual worlds by sector and by target age group

Page under development - feel free to add details of other virtual worlds.

Games in education

There is a clear overlap between virtual worlds (like Second Life virtual world) and online games (like World of Warcraft) - and it seems likely that they can learn useful things from each other ... The links below are to sites which give more info about games in education ...

• Games4Learning Resource page

Useful sources of info re virtual worlds in education

Innovate (the journal of online education) Volume 5, Number 5, June/July 2009 is on Virtual Worlds, Simulations, and Games for Education]

Educause Review Volume 43, Number 5, September/October 2008 is on virtual worlds in HE

JOURNAL OF VIRTUAL WORLDS RESEARCH
This new open access, peer-reviewed publication, hosted by the Texas Digital Library consortium (http://jvwresearch.org/) is a "transdisciplinary journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect virtual worlds research."

Stuff on the web re virtual worlds

• The Cool Cat Teacher Blog re OpenSim

What is Schome?

Schome is going to be a new form of educational system designed to overcome the problems within current education systems. It will meet the needs of society and individuals in the twenty-first century and will be a system which values and supports people learning throughout their lives.

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Related sections of the wiki

• Find out about different educational approaches
• Find out about major educational thinkers
• Find out about education in different countries
• Find out about Aspire – visions of future education

Elsewhere in our wiki

• Introduction to Schome
• The Schome vision
• Schome and Second Life
• What's happening on Schome Base?
• What's happening on Schome Park?
  

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